Quboid wrote on Dec 29, 2011, 20:15:Santa brought me one of the £79 ones. The Kindle Fire looks like a bad e-reader (short battery, bad screen) and a bad tablet (locked down, mediocre hardware), a sort of worst-of-both-worlds thing, so I'm surprised to see it get so much love.

Root it and you can largely overcome three of those limitations. The screen's still not fantastic, but the rest would be more than serviceable.